dozens of hostages seized by al-qaeda linked insurgents are we for a danimal jury a following a botched rescue attempt by the country's military. and the cries in the area cause a david cameron to once again delay a much anticipated speech on the u.k.'s future within the european union. as israel gets ready to go to the polls prime minister benjamin netanyahu struggles to maintain support for his reelection bid.

eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program. algeria says there are a number of data injured following a hostage rescue attempt at a gas plant near its border with libya there are also reports indicating that at least thirty captives and eleven militants have been killed in the operation by the country's military and all qaeda linked groups occupy the plan on wednesday claiming the hostage capture which included manning foreigners was in retaliation for french military intervention in neighboring mali french president francois hollande said that the situation means that the operation to oust islamic militants is justified the fighting continues across mali with paris increasing its presence on the ground to fourteen hundred troops the e.u. has pledged to help train a million army while the u.s. also promised logistical support but stopped short of the going its own military

author and historian jailed horne says the fallout from that we called intervention could eventually backfire and result in president alon being forced out of office. what mr olmert is doing is enlarging and worsening an existing problem what's striking is that the midst of sore cozied had initiated this intervention in libya and part raises for it being a popularity ratings i think that it's fair to say to mr mccoll on this intervention in mali for similar reasons the problem is that when the body bags returning to paris the populous will turn on vista along with a vengeance and he will be driven from office just as surely as sort of the what's driven from office i think that this war and the consequences of want to spread it into neighboring countries is going to jeopardize french uranium interest in nigeria it's going to jeopardize the kinds of agreements that france and the other

north atlantic countries have with algeria in terms of natural gas so i think that if they had thought through what they were getting themselves into they would not have moved in the direction of an invasion. i do believe that this french intervention in mali won't end in tears meanwhile the ongoing situation algeria has caused british prime minister david cameron to definitely postpone his much anticipated speech on the u.k. status within the e.u. excerpts released from the statement say there is a danger that europe will fail and that there is a looming possibility of britain leaving the block unless reforms are carried out. by delaying the speech cameron has put himself into an increasingly tight spot. this long awaited fourth speech is now being put back the prime minister saying this is cheetah the own growing crisis at the algerian gas plant now obviously we see the situation there developing and the prime minister saying that it's a very dangerous very fluid situation but i think the prime minister really in this

circumstance assert himself for a full with these lessons of wide open to the criticism here we saw this speech arranged through right back last year around gene time it's been put back four times already. various different reasons at one point the prime minister having jokes comparing the speech to tantric sex saying if you know the best so when it actually comes you know that's not looking particularly funny anymore and people wondering when if indeed it will ever come well everyone was looking for from the speech was clarity leadership over this issue we've been speaking to a lot of the british public over the past few weeks and they're very confused about what cameron stance is on europe one n.p.r. was speaking to said despite this is the tail that's wagging the dog that this hard core group of euro skeptics within his own party were really dictating the prime minister's actions and i think it's really going to wash. really preaches him self

into the corner where he's got to have a referendum after an election and he will try a school for politicians to use through paper over the cracks to give a brief to them to them and say that we now are looking for europe to make a response to our proper request for david cameron as prime minister he's definitely in a tight spot right now he's he's not looking particularly strong he's not looking like he's led the way and so you know he is a lot of trouble here we've seen the speech today once again say the uncertainty continues i'm afraid. sara for their well critics say uncertainty over it will deter foreign investors from britain and eventually bring it to the edge of an economic cliff comes amid predictions the u.k. could be slipping from its ranking as one of the world's top ten economies will bring in more analysis on that later in the program. in time

pakistan's government has reached a deal with a muslim cleric to halt mass protests in the capital islamabad tens of thousands of qadri supporters and of the sit in after he convinced authorities to dissolve parliament before march had of elections after that voting should take place with a ninety days and it also agreed to discuss electoral reforms however countries demand that the army be consulted on the structure of the interim administration was rejected political chaos and growing fewer over widespread corruption has also deepen after the government clash with the country's top court its order to arrest the prime minister over a corruption case has been rejected professor paul sheldon food from california state university says cod reason message raises a lot of questions is will be able to keep his. campaign talks very big he says he believes in supporting minority rights in and i haven't heard him condemn the murders of. shiites by in large numbers he claims to have been

a professor of constitutional law and yet he says that only he can understand what the prophet mohammed meant and this is a man full of contradictions the people who roll pocket stunt of always dependent upon the west particularly the british to the other countries to such as america. and to have the indication that you have both international support and some money . is always a good indicator when you're running against the wealthiest families and hardest on earth the election results don't come out the way he wants your claim is a rupture of the process the only a man such as him could run in a real islamic democracy process pakistan is already an islamic republic. he has to be very precise about why he regards it as a failure or simply citing corruption is not enough. mass rallies staged by an

influential cleric in pakistan only added to the country's uncertainty seeking electoral reforms democracy in our own corruption here connery has called for a revolution before the deal was reached r.t.s. talked exclusively to a protest leader who told us exactly what he means by that. when i say revolution we should keep in your mind in egypt in tunis in libya and all these countries. and we need to be dictatorship for years and years for a long time. and the people stood up against that indeed on there was a rule of shen shah that people stood up against that. our dystonic is a bit different there is no one else rude neither monadic elude nor a military dictatorship here it is electoral authority did twenty billion is electoral dictatorship true democracy does not exist in this society neither in political field nor in social feed nor in economic field or democracy so this is

a lawlessness total chaos and an oddity in this country government is totally dysfunctional. saw that this is the single nation a single country in the whole muslim world having a nuclear capability and if the same situation continues that would be a very big disaster if we could come to the level of collapse so out of this modest and movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim world. and alternative world and developing muslim countries the have to get to the end of corruption and corrupt leaders. well you can see our interview with pakistan's top cleric in full at r.t. dot com here's a glimpse of what else you can find there. to watch in line suited showing how fire man was almost knocked from his latter by ice huge slab of snow after his lucky escape he continued to save the lives of woman and baby trapped in the

a park. and worn down on our website. and it's not a sin to be beautiful at top vatican claire graces the cover of vanity fair for more on this story and much more at our website r.t. dot com. now i have of the twenty second of january election israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has to deal with plummeting poll figures with manny viewing his politics as not radical enough although still expected to return into office netanyahu is losing supporters to his former right wing allies are now reports. he's the surprise success story of israel's election campaign and one twin millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for israel enough to be bennett used to work for prime minister netanyahu but now he's working at taking supporters away from him like this man who used to be a diehard supporter of netanyahu so he could party until these elections rolled around in the could is. a bus full of right wing members of that with

a lift wing person driving the bus. as far as being i mean. even though i am opposed to it. i would say most members of the likud obviously is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a writer leader at home he's losing face among supporters for not being focused enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know will never happen the sopranos will never return for another season. growing our pro and a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have put bennett's jewish home party in food position it's poised to take more than twelve percent of parliamentary seats analysts say little yahoo while still expected to serve another term is running scared he's up his rhetoric i say in the most clear

of terms the western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the un says we will build in jerusalem because it's our right netanyahu is we could list has grown even more right wing with radicals like this woman high up in the pecking order. but the league would be to no party is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews whose eternal capital. but what will be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many israelis are asking themselves about the day after will netanyahu become more rightwing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or will he back down and risk losing face among his supporters. is hoping for the latter that netanyahu will listen to world opinion and reach a compromise with the palestinians he knows all too well what the current cycle of violence can bring speakers daughter was killed in

a suicide bombing seventeen years ago. that we don't have unfortunately in the center and the left. leader who is significantly charismatic to lead this country and give its people hope the left is also divided but i do think you know who will find a way to compromise because of world pressure but that compromise won't come easy enough to be bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians limited self-will in the wrist and while that might put seem a possible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his constituency wants to hear a fact and it on yahoo is acutely aware of. tel aviv. well was just days left until israel had to polls to choose its next parliament r.t. will be closely following the election campaign and vote providing you with an damps coverage how will tension with to run develop full settlement expansion isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will

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welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow now the case financial woes could well drag on for decades to come where the country predicted to fall out of the top ten economies by two thousand and fifty that's one had turning possibility set out in a report on global growth by consulting giant pricewaterhouse coopers vassar of economics rodney shakespeare says there are some basic steps the u.k. can take to escape the doldrums when you've controlled the banks because they're

registry out of control you say let them lend their own money and interest to do what they like but you open up an interest free loan supply from the national bank that so one thing being a king will not do and which the present government will not allow because it that smashes the power of the commercial banks and the present european community structure is obviously just and has no longer taking any concern of the. the political interests and reactions of the peoples of europe it's not just the u.k. it's the people of france it's the people of holland it's the people of ireland until they were deceived it's all the peoples of europe they want a new relationship in the political structure. a probe into the activities of russia's former the fans' minister has led to a criminal case being launched and until he's there to call will be investigated over allegations of abuse of power the probe has already revealed that some top to fans officials ordered soldiers to landscape the gardens advocation base belonging

to the former the fans ministers brother in law the defense ministry has been at the center of a major corruption scandal for several months now and is always there to cough lost his job in a van and has been a witness in a number of fraud cases involving his former subordinates and now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world a string of roadside bombings in shiite muslim regions of iraq has raised the death toll to at least sixty people since wednesday an extended deadly wave of bloodshed into a second day the deadliest of the attacks targeting shia muslim areas killed at least seven people after two car bombs exploded near shia pilgrims traveling to a shrine in a city north of baghdad although there was no immediate claim of responsibility such attacks are a tactic of sunni insurgents seeking to undermine the shiite led government.

saif gadhafi the son of former libyan your mom and today as appeared in court in libya for the first time since his capture more than a year ago he's facing charges of handing secrets data to an international criminal court lawyer putting the country's security in danger of the trial is thought to be linked to a deal with the i.c.c. that once him extradited to the hague to face trial for war crimes meanwhile for a french president sarkozy is denying claims that he received millions of euros in financial support from water khadafi during an election campaign. huge bushfire is burning out of control across the israeli and state of victoria the blaze that started in a national park destroyed up to twenty five thousand hectares and is now predicted to move fast in a north easterly direction carried by strong winds several homes have been raised and manny fires still remain on contained prompting fears of more to come the wave of bushfires hit us rail you nearly two weeks ago sparked by soaring temperatures

that reached over forty degrees centigrade. the us now northeastern states ravaged by superstorm sandy in late october have been promised a were fifty billion dollars a buy a lawmaker's the senate has yet to prove the measures passed earlier this week in the house of representatives despite manny opposing the bill and while politicians are bickering over kashmir the storm survivors are left with almost no support as he's an associate you're going to now reports. a gorgeous beach turned coast area the rockaways in queens one of the places hit hardest by hurricane sandy to want to have months ago still in shambles today miles and miles of devastated businesses residential buildings and houses like this one a place some family probably used to call home now almost literally hanging by

a thread with almost zero chance of ever being rebuilt few locals on the collapsed boardwalk most of them in dire need of help this man who chose to remain anonymous due to government related work survived hurricane katrina his hopes of recovery post sandy are meager he never going to move. you still go parts of alabama louisiana mississippi where they got hit with katrina that areas they've been touched yet after sandy hit and lead october he spent over a month with no electricity heat or hot water and thirty degree weather famer three times i feel that an application is three times i got sorry politicians had their per hour the folks here that put them in office of the least on the a list money looks better in your pocket that is spending it on something that may get washed away again i had to replace my. water heater retired local roberta hof was

currently rebuilding her walls floors em stairs says the destruction after the hurricane has been immense we don't have a movie theater we don't have the hospital it's gone the banks and finally opening now it's two and a half months it looks like as after a war or after knowing in afghanistan or something. and most of the help in hurricane affected areas has come from volunteers i didn't see too much of the red cross to be truth it was volunteers who have often been affected by sandy themselves like a man use of from staten island actually it was like a foot on top of it that's how much it was the water his house deemed unsafe after the hurricane is about to be demolished the only think we need is the plants the fund is not there to get you know we we get in like two percent so we're going to get the ninety percent that's a mystery we need a check from god that's what we for a month and a half a man lived in this tent where he also set up a help center for the community somewhere a lot of people coming there are still six seven hundred people. a day six seven

hundred yes yes. all of these people victims of sandy everybody around here go up to them they'll tell you the same thing they said you know they handed me a sandwich and a blanket and i was in water up to my chest and they said hey see you later oh by the way i'm not allowed to exit the truck occupy sandy a child of the occupy wall street movement has been a big part of the recovery effort to even praised by the n.y.p.d. what we have is a lot of people coming in here and not knowing where to turn and some of them are in tears and you know it's very hard to tell them that help is coming and you hear all this talk about it the nine billion fifty one billion that that would be a big help if it actually got to communities while politicians seem to have perfected the skill of arguing over how much cash to spend on relief aid getting money and help to ordinary people who needed right now is clearly a skill that is yet to be learned and if they see churkin. new york. russia's

warning that a currency world war is looming for the global economy the concerns were sparked by japan's move to lower the value of the yen in pursuit of better exports causing fears of a massive chain reaction as other nations do the same r.t.c. or it is going up as the story. an economy not so far away and actually the global economy is on the verge of a currency war allow me to paint a quick picture for you in japan where the newly elected prime minister has been pushing for a more aggressive central bank policy has been dropping the yen went down by eleven percent since december meanwhile in europe the euro is rising and that's right despite the debt and eurozone crisis austerity measures and so on the euro grew by seven percent in the last six months and experts say europe has fired the first shell e.u. financial of thought is warn the rise of the euro is threatening the economy so it is possible it will be deliberately dropped meanwhile across the atlantic the

united states has been printing blocks for the last five years to support of markets but that also makes the dollars cheaper in washington has been looking over the shoulder shina which holds the majority of u.s. foreign debt and b.g. is also accused of holding back the u. one reason why they do that is the one currency is dropped the export becomes cheaper making the country more competitive obviously that's not greeted with applause by its competitors other countries which we tallied by dropping the very currencies so it's like a domino effect and the last time a major currency war happened was during the great depression in the 1930's which resulted in a slowdown of international trade and all was part of the lead up to wald war two but that's not all if exports become cheaper imports become more expensive so ordinary citizens can buy a less imported goods and traveling abroad traveling abroad rather becomes more expensive that leads to public disapproval unrest and so on that's why russia which

only cheers the g twenty is so worried and it's very likely you will see a major skirmish when the groups financial ministers meeting next month in moscow. on find out about the trials of a russian man left to care for his children after the death of his wife even today at his right after the break here on our. mission free accreditation free comes for charges free. range humans free. free. to tide free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and a free media dog r.t. dot com. you know how sometimes you see

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